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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1972 SECTION INDIANA NEWS publisher aim a study at closing credibility gap mmm i v. i I 'if i -testis' V(rv Mt 4M' leaders and virtually all of our institutions. This vast erosion in public confidence must be reversed and our educational institutions can play a vital role in making our governments and the media more credible through better understanding." Poynter hopes the project will develop a system where students can better judge the credibility of American institutions and can act as "better, more knowledgeable monitors of their media, their governments, and their institutions." He said this might lead to more responsible and relevant institutions. Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Social commentators have been telling Americans for 10 years that lack of trust in each other and in their institutions is the major problem facing the nation.

A newspaper publisher and Indiana University are combining to spend $500,000 and five years in a search for a way to restore that trust. IU alumnus Nelson P. Poynter, chairman of the board of The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and president of the Congressional Quarterly, has awarded the money for a five-year pilot project aimed at bridging the credibility gap between citizens and institutions. If the project is successful, Poynter hopes the process can be applied to other campuses and eventually reach down to grade school level.

Discussing the American people since World War II, Poynter said, "They have lost confidence in the credibility of their colleges will have access to some of its informational resources. A committee of IU administrators and faculty members has been studying Poyn-ter's challenge and developing the program. The plans call for exposing a cross section of students to representatives of public and private institutions and qualified faculty members to give the students background on the nature of the credibility gap. The students then would be encouraged to undertake an in-depth study of a particular problem ranging from the environmental crisis, to the decline of public transit, to minority problems in a university. The planners said a concerted effort to refine the students' understanding of how the mass media report about public and private institutions should override the entire project.

A 1924 graduate of I. where he was editor of The Indiana Daily Student newspaper, Poynter made the award through the Poynter Fund. The fund is in honor of his late father, Paul Poynter, who was a publisher in Florida and Indiana. It has worked closely with the American Political Science Association for almost 20 years on projects to bring a better understanding between political scientists and journalists. The Poynters have been in newspapers since his father bought the Sullivan (Ind.) Democrat in 1897.

That paper became the Sullivan Daily Times in 1905 and was owned by the Poynter family until May 1, 1972. Bloomington man Staff Pholo by Johnny Maupln French Lick police chief killed by shotgun blast Beg your pardon The first name of Mrs. Ewa Jaslar, the adopted daughter of Dr. Harry Lacey Armstrong, was incorrectly given as Aewa in his obituary in Sunday's Courier-Journal Times. Due to incorrect information from the funeral home, Mrs.

Lillie Davis was identified as the mother of Mrs. William O. Wilson whose obituary appeared in Sunday's Courier-Journal Times. Mrs. Davis was actually Mrs.

Wilson's foster mother. Due to a typesetting error, the last name of Robert Jewell Keith was incorrectly given as Kaith in his obituary in Sunday's Courier-Journal Times. In the list of Keith's survivors, a stepdaughter, Miss Wanda L. Smith, was misidentified as being married due to incorrect information from the funeral home. Two other stepdaughters, Mrs.

Arvol Smith of Annis-ton, and Mrs. Ernest Hopkins of West Point, were omitted from the list of survivors. Associated Press FRENCH LICK, Ind. A shooting spree through this Southern Indiana community and neighboring West Baden ended yesterday morning with the death of French Lick Police Chief Verne L. Irvin.

Irvin, 52, was killed at 5:50 a.m. in front of his police station. Orange County authorities held Henry Clay Jennings, 38, Bloomington, in connection with the shooting. Indiana state police and the Orange County sheriff's office gave this account of the shooting: A man in a pickup truck was chasing his sister, in a car, through the two towns. He stopped several times and began firing his 12-gauge singleshot shotgun.

At Pulling for a ifTN sa i fit Jeffersonville day of arts Sidewalk art painting, above, actually was done in the middle of Riverside Drive at Jeffersonville as one of the features of yesterday's Riverfront Arts and Crafts Festival in that Southern Indiana city. The sidewalk painting, for children in elementary-school grades, was sponsored by the Clark County United Fund. At left, painter James B. Hughes works at his easel. Staff Photo by Edward C.

Davit III More Mississippi THE discussion here of the old rhymes that once were used in teaching children how to spell Mississippi "M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked lettter-I-humpback-humpback-I," being one way reminded George W. Liske, Radcliffe, of an ironic happening. When the 150th anniversary of the Mississippi Territory was marked, the person who depicted the state's great seal on the commemorative stamp issued obviously never had learned any of the spelling jingles because one was lost and the name came out "Missisippi." The way we are THIS thought for the day from R. E. Porter, Louisvillle: "One of the queerest things about life today is the number of persons who are spending money they haven't got for things they don't want in order to impress the Joneses, who they can't stand the sight of." joe cireason A chance to be enshrined in imnsters Hall of Fame Full time director sought Byrum E.

Carter, chancellor of the I.U. Bloomington campus, said a full-time director will be sought for the program. He said the project will reach into several departments and all eight campuses of I.U. Other Hoosier universities and held one stop, in front of a French Lick service station, he fired seven shots at the telephone lines. West Baden Police Chief James Beatty and assistant Steve Flick got the complaint of the shootings, and found the man in front of the French Lick police station.

The man fired a blast through the windshield of Beatty's car, and held the two officers at gunpoint. Irvin approached the group and called on the gunman to surrender. The man fired as Irvin approached, the charge striking the chief in the face. State police said he died almost instantly. West Baden officers took Jennings into custody at 6:15 a.m.

He was taken to the Orange County Jail. Photo by Will Lott good time But it all finally worked out all right. Indiana Bell finally took over and consolidated the whole thing. You could spread gossip in all directions then, which perhaps contributed much to the development of the state. But back in those early days the Home phoners had theirs and the Cumberlanders theirs.

And those fortunate few who could afford both phones had it all. They were the real troublemakers. Notable quotes My old friend, H. E. Smith, in The Paoli News: "Fewer people would get off the straight and narrow path if they could tell the difference between vice and advice." The Progress-Examiner, Orleans: "If you're not as close to God as you once were, make no mistake about which one has moved." The Rockport Democrat: "Whenever the average woman begins to think her work is about done along come the grandchildren." mm IIP 1 on a certain Oldham County farm may expect was provided in a classified ad in the Oldham Era the other week that read: "POSTED No hunting, trapping or trespassing on my farm on Highway 42.

All violators and survivors will be prosecuted." Ill Old New York WHO SAYS New Yorkers aren't considerate? Not former Louisvillians Mr. and Mrs. Steve Richardson and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hayes, who now live in Richmond, Va.

Recently they were visiting in New York City and stopped at a small out-of-the-way place in Manhattan for lunch. The owner, working behind the counter, insisted that they take a piece of delicious looking pie "on the house." An employe noticed the surprised look on their faces. "That goes to show you not everybody in New York is rotten," he said, then added: "Also it will give you the strength to run away from the muggers!" punny things going on and announce winners. To give some idea of what it'll take to make it into the Hall of Fame, you'll have to top these: Edgar Sarver, Falls of Rough: "Mamma Pigeon was telling you youngsters it was time to leave the nest and fly since they'd be heading south soon and those who couldn't make it on their own would be towed. 'But, one youngster chirped, 'I don't want to be Sam Jarvis, Louisville: "A golfer was playing a short hole and his drive sailed into the rough and flushed up a quail resting in the grass.

It was, he said, the first time he'd seen a partridge on a par three." So here's your chance to get into a real Hall of Fame. No puns based on turning that into a Hall of Infamy will be considered. Duly notified FULL particulars as to what intruders INDIANA NEW ALBANY Cub Scouts put a lot of muscle and some big smiles into a tug-of-war before a recent outing at Marengo. THE OTHER day in telling how I had seen my friend Bob Yost make up a pun in front of my very eyes, I repeated a few other examples of the play-on-words type humor that always cause me to gasp "Ouch!" and wish I had said them. Although the pun sometimes also called a shaggy dog story has been called the lowest form of humor, that report evidently hit a lot of exposed nerves.

Anyway, since then I have received upwards of 50 puns from persons around and about. Since it's obvious that, despite its reputation, there is considerable admiration for the pun, I herewith announce creation of Creason's Hall of Fame, Pun and Shaggy Dog Story Division. The idea will be to recognize and perpetuate the best or worst, depending on how you feel about the pun of this kind of humor. Entries should be sent to me for consideration by an expert panel, all of whom are too chicken to allow their identity to be revealed. Puns given a rating of two ouches or more willl be duly enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

From time to time I'll report on all the AROUND Vic Green's Banner-Gazette, Pekin: "When Grandma used to tell you how many pints and quarts she put away, you knew she meant jellies and jams." The Dubois County Daily Herald: "Optimist: 'Good morning, "Pessimist: 'Good lord, The news from without From a downstate weekly: Item: "Fifty-five were in church Sunday for morning services." Another item, same edition: "More than 175 from here went to the baseball game Saturday." More anent Hoosiers Recently Around Indiana did a little more exploration on the term "Hoosier" as applied to those who profess to really be one of us. And now a letter from Cliff Bird, at Paoli, who upsets everything else with still another explanation: "Dear Cliff, Rival phone companies generated lots of crossed wires By CLIFF ROBINSON The other day somebody asked me if I remember 50 or so years ago when two telephone companies the Home and the Cumberland were battling it out in Southern Indiana. They had their own lines and their own strings of gossip. "Sure," I said. "That was when a gal with a Home phone could meet a guy with a Cumberland and never hear from him again." That probably was the beginning of what we recognize today as bad relations among neighbors.

If you didn't have a pile, you couldn't afford both phones, and so you had to count on your neighbors until everybody was counted out. If your uncle died on the Cumberland and you had a Home, you might not even hear about it until after the funeral. We had a Home, but a couple of doors down the street they had a Cumberland. Frequently we smiled at each other, but early one morning the Cumberlanders delivered a message with a footnote exclaiming why the hell we didn't have the right telephone. ously are very hard to come by, but we have one in our office.

I looked up scantlin', or perhaps scantling: a small piece of lumber (as an upright piece in house framing)." No wonder they found ears all over the ground. Imagine gettin' slugged over the head with a ridge pole with the bark on it! You may be right. Smells good, if not allergic The other day I ran into an old copy of Fortune magazine featuring an extensive story on Indiana, which the writer, Frank J. Wemhoff, described as a "cornfield with traffic lights." Maybe but the article didn't give us credit for it we have more traffic lights per acre of corn than any of the other 49 states. But Wemhoff was pretty sure about the things that are closest to our hearts: Nostalgia still abounds in Indiana.

The moonlight yet gleams along the Wabash, and the new-mown hay is still fragrant for the nonallergics." "Seein' as how there seems to be doubt as to the origin of I feel that the record should be set straight. My great-granddaddy married a Hatfield girl back in the feuding days and migrated to Orange County. He lived to be 92, so I was treated to much folklore as a youngster. "Our ancestors had to be rough and tough to stay alive. In an argument, one pioneer often picked up a scantlin' and hit 'tother' feller on the head, often shearing off an ear.

"Next person coming by often wondered 'Whose Over the years that was corrupted to "If this isn't satisfactory, Cliff, I have another equally authentic. Now, will you help me? What the heck's a scantlin'?" Well, Mr. Bird, you have stirred troubled waters, but your solution to the origin of the term "Hoosier" sounds about as plausible as others we have heard, and so we will have to put you down in the record. As for a scantlin', did you ever hear of a book called a dictionary? They obvi- Get 'em hack in cars For some time Around Indiana has been trying to get something done about a bill to license pedestrians motorists who have just alighted from their cars. As motorists they are licensed all the way to the floorboard, but as pedestrians they could care less.

I've even observed them jaywalking, which perhaps could mean a faulty knee joint, or even a bad leg. So somehow I feel we need a pedestrian-inspection law to supplement the car-inspection law. Let's try to find out, for example: kWhy many pedestrians come to a dead stop in the middle of a busy intersection to wave at, or talk to their friends. Why they often move unexpectedly out of parking spaces into the path of oncoming vehicular traffic. Why they often cross the street against the traffic lights and shake their fists at motorists, who are nothing more than pedestrians back in their cars.

So let's do something about pedestrians, if only get them back in their cars. I.